Friday, January 22, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
The Kookiest Idea Yet For Getting Guns Off the Streets
Officials in Tacoma, Washington want people to drop off guns the same way we drop of library books. By placing gun “drop boxes” into residential neighborhoods –specifically away from police presence– the city hopes that the lack of police oversight will encourage people turn in guns.
No, this is not a joke. The world of stupid ideas is stacked with notables, but its entirely possible this one may take home the All-Time Champion award.
Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell defended the idea saying:
“The main intent and goal is just to get these weapons off the streets.”Melissa Cordeiro, Gang Reduction Project Coordinator for Tacoma, also defended the idea stating:
“It takes out the up-front interaction with law enforcement. They would just have to drop the gun off and later law enforcement would swing by and pick it up out of the drop box.”Commentary from the sane side of the isle has chimed in too. Tacoma Police Union President Sgt. Jim Barrett made (obvious) observations about the usefulness of the boxes:
“Are we really expecting these people to walk down the street to this drop box, with the gun tucked in their shorts, and drop it off?” he asked, “It doesn’t seem to me to be a well thought-out process as of right now.”The amount of lunacy and number of flaws surrounding this idea are too numerous to count, but here’s a few:
Expecting a criminal, someone who uses a gun for illegal activity, to simply turn theirs in thereby diminishing their own job performance prospects is ludicrous. It’s like asking an Uber driver to turn in their oil filter, yes you can still go to work but you just voluntarily made things a lot harder on yourself. Even if the idea were realistic the criminal could sell, pawn or find another way to get rid of the gun in exchange for money or something of value as opposed to just voluntarily giving it away.
Legal gun owners would also opt to sell their firearms instead of just throwing them away. For those convinced this idea would take off the streets — in what universe is placing a box full of guns somewhere away from police eyes a good idea? So here you’d have a box, no matter how secure, that criminals know:
a) Has guns in it
b) Has specifically been placed in an area void of police (to encourage people to use the box)Talk about “lead me not into temptation". Ideas this bad don’t come around everyday but when they do you can bet your bottom dollar on this; they’re the brainchildren of liberal politicians and bureaucrats who are driven by their ideological notions of a utopian society.
Florida Caveman Wants to Be United States Senator
It’s Nice to Want Things
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Rep. Alan Grayson may be married to a bigamist. He’s compared the Tea Party to the KKK. He also wants to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. Republicans couldn't be more thrilled.
Daily Beast
Alan Grayson is prone to making the type of outrageous comments on cable television that would make you squirm if they came from your drunk uncle at a family dinner. He is currently in the middle of a trial to determine if his wife is a bigamist and if they were ever even legally married. The trial is being delayed because her breast implants are leaking. And, besides all that, Grayson is a United States congressman considering a run for Senate.
Grayson, who was just elected to his third term on Capitol Hill, has cast himself as a progressive champion. The Orlando-area Democrat has spent much of his second stint in Congress—he lost in the Tea Party wave of 2010 after his first election in 2008 and then won an open seat in 2012 after redistricting.
he is best known for making bombastic, controversial remarks. He has compared the Tea Party to the KKK, alleged that Ted Cruz was ineligible to run for president, and claimed that the Republican alternative to Obamacare was encouraging the sick to die quickly. He also ran an ad in 2010 in which he compared his Republican opponent to the Taliban.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Your Tantrums Are Wearing Kinda Thin......
“We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration and if we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It’s a double standard.” - Stacey DashShe's right. The fact of the matter is that black actors claiming to fight for “fairness” don’t really want it. What they want is to win, and in their alleged pursuit of what THEY call equality, all they’re really doing is being complicit in this little thing known as racism. They just want to win; plain and simple. Since they haven’t recently, they are looking for someone to blame, rather than looking at their work and evaluating what may have kept them from an Academy Award nomination.
Maybe someone should have nominated the real Best Black Actors performances of the year:
Obama's Lawlessness Fuels Civil Disobedience and Record Government Distrust
That's a disturbing but perfectly legitimate question to raise as each day witnesses another scheme by the Obama Administration to circumvent established laws and constitutional mandates, and as an increasing sense of lawless chaos prevails both domestically and abroad.
Just how bad has the situation become? Two new Gallup surveys cast a worrisome scene.
When asked to name the nation's greatest threat as we enter the 2016 presidential election year, Americans by a record margin overwhelmingly say "big government." Particularly notable is the fact that the percentage of respondents holding that position has skyrocketed from 53% when Barack Obama entered office to 69% today. Thus, the man who so desperately endeavored to reverse Ronald Reagan's legacy by convincing Americans to welcome governmental power over our lives has ironically accomplished the direct opposite effect through his actions.
"A staggering 75% of the American public believe corruption is 'widespread' in the U.S. government. Not incompetence, but corruption. This alarming figure has held steady since 2010, up from 66% in 2009... Protests are growing in cities and campuses all around the country. Students and citizens have generally lost faith in their national institutions - the biggest and most powerful of which is, of course, the federal government."When Obama entered office, he possessed an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives, and a filibuster-proof Senate majority. Accordingly, he could have introduced any among his litany of extremist proposals on whatever issues he wanted - climate change, labor unions, gun control, immigration, closing of Guantanamo, treaties with Iran or anything else.
But he didn't.
Only when his own actions created a backlash and caused Americans to elect Republican House and Senate majorities not seen since the 1920s did Obama miraculously find it appropriate to begin imposing his agenda by extra-constitutional means.
Obama has infamously behaved just as lawlessly in other areas, such as unilaterally declaring the Senate to be in "recess" when only it has the power to do so, the swap of hardened terrorists for deserter Bowe Bergdahl in violation of his explicit duty to inform Congress beforehand, arbitrarily suspending and imposing ObamaCare regulations for political purposes, job-killing and punitive environmental regulations, IRS persecution of conservative organizations and now a commitment to impose gun regulations that he could have introduced into Congress back when he possessed overwhelming Democratic majorities.
Throughout his presidency, Obama has simply chosen to disregard constitutional and political constraints in order to impose his agenda. It can therefore come as no surprise that increasing instances of reciprocal lawlessness and disrespect for his own authority pop up everywhere from domestically to the Middle East to Ukraine to the South China Sea. He cannot expect others to demonstrate a respect that he himself does not show.
This nation was founded by men far wiser than Obama in the philosophy of individual freedom, not government fiat. Candidates hoping to enter the White House in one year would do well to understand that reality, and Americans increasingly disgusted and alarmed by government overreach would do well to translate their sentiments into electoral action.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The Democratic Party Problem:
We have a special problem in the United States, which is that the Democratic party is more of a crime syndicate than a political party, and it is deeply embedded in institutions ranging from the universities (where manufactured hate crimes and phony rape cases are used as political weapons) to the prosecutors' offices (which bully law-enforcement personnel and file specious felony charges against politicians for such ordinary actions as vetoing legislation) to the unions (see California) and the schools. It doesn't matter how many laws Hillary Rodham Clinton breaks, or how often she lies about it -- the attorney general is a Democrat, and that's that. Tom DeLay can be brought up on felony charges for allegedly having broken a law that wasn't even on the books at the time he was said to have broken it (the case was eventually laughed out of court, after it had ended his political career, which was the point) but IRS criminal conspirator Lois Lerner is going to spend the rest of her days enjoying a fat pension at your expense."— Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
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